Negură Bunget - "Dacia Hiperboreană" (video)

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First, I found out how to say, “Negură Bunget“. The Internet yielded this native Romanian speaker saying it.

How to say “Negură Bunget”
[audio: NEGURABUNGET_PRONUNCIATION.mp3]

I still don’t think I’ll ever say it right.

Next, the band has released a “visual exploration” of the song “Dacia Hiperboreană” from its new album Vîrstele Pămîntului, which you can order here. The band takes pains to point out that it’s not an “actual video”, but it looks like an actual video to me. It’s by Romanian ambient musician Daniel Dorobantu, and it’s what might happen if Stephen Kasner paintings became a Windows Media Player visualization.  That sounds terrible, I know. But it works. Fire it up on full-screen, turn down the lights, and let the sounds and images wash over you.

Negură Bunget’s big story at the moment is the schism of the band, resulting in only one remaining original member on Vîrstele Pămîntului, with the others forming Dordeduh, which has a 7″ gatefold single coming out in September (pre-order here.) Also, earlier this year Negură Bunget’s original lineup released Măiestrit, a re-recording of 2000’s Măiastru Sfetnic. More on all this later – for the moment, enjoy this not-actual video.